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<h4 class="subsection">9.15.5 Register Naming</h4>

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<p>Register operands are always prefixed with &lsquo;<samp>%</samp>&rsquo;.  The 80386 registers
consist of
</p>
<ul>
<li> the 8 32-bit registers &lsquo;<samp>%eax</samp>&rsquo; (the accumulator), &lsquo;<samp>%ebx</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%ecx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%edx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%edi</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%esi</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%ebp</samp>&rsquo; (the
frame pointer), and &lsquo;<samp>%esp</samp>&rsquo; (the stack pointer).

</li><li> the 8 16-bit low-ends of these: &lsquo;<samp>%ax</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%bx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%cx</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%dx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%di</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%si</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%bp</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>%sp</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 8-bit registers: &lsquo;<samp>%ah</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%al</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%bh</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%bl</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%ch</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%cl</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%dh</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>%dl</samp>&rsquo; (These
are the high-bytes and low-bytes of &lsquo;<samp>%ax</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%bx</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%cx</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>%dx</samp>&rsquo;)

</li><li> the 6 section registers &lsquo;<samp>%cs</samp>&rsquo; (code section), &lsquo;<samp>%ds</samp>&rsquo;
(data section), &lsquo;<samp>%ss</samp>&rsquo; (stack section), &lsquo;<samp>%es</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%fs</samp>&rsquo;,
and &lsquo;<samp>%gs</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 5 processor control registers &lsquo;<samp>%cr0</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%cr2</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%cr3</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%cr4</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>%cr8</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 6 debug registers &lsquo;<samp>%db0</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%db1</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%db2</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%db3</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%db6</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>%db7</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 2 test registers &lsquo;<samp>%tr6</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>%tr7</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 floating point register stack &lsquo;<samp>%st</samp>&rsquo; or equivalently
&lsquo;<samp>%st(0)</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%st(1)</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%st(2)</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%st(3)</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%st(4)</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%st(5)</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%st(6)</samp>&rsquo;, and &lsquo;<samp>%st(7)</samp>&rsquo;.
These registers are overloaded by 8 MMX registers &lsquo;<samp>%mm0</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%mm1</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%mm2</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%mm3</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%mm4</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%mm5</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%mm6</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>%mm7</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 128-bit SSE registers registers &lsquo;<samp>%xmm0</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%xmm1</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%xmm2</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%xmm3</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%xmm4</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%xmm5</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%xmm6</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>%xmm7</samp>&rsquo;.
</li></ul>

<p>The AMD x86-64 architecture extends the register set by:
</p>
<ul>
<li> enhancing the 8 32-bit registers to 64-bit: &lsquo;<samp>%rax</samp>&rsquo; (the
accumulator), &lsquo;<samp>%rbx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%rcx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%rdx</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%rdi</samp>&rsquo;,
&lsquo;<samp>%rsi</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%rbp</samp>&rsquo; (the frame pointer), &lsquo;<samp>%rsp</samp>&rsquo; (the stack
pointer)

</li><li> the 8 extended registers &lsquo;<samp>%r8</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%r15</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 32-bit low ends of the extended registers: &lsquo;<samp>%r8d</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%r15d</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 16-bit low ends of the extended registers: &lsquo;<samp>%r8w</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%r15w</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 8-bit low ends of the extended registers: &lsquo;<samp>%r8b</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%r15b</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 4 8-bit registers: &lsquo;<samp>%sil</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%dil</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%bpl</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>%spl</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 debug registers: &lsquo;<samp>%db8</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%db15</samp>&rsquo;.

</li><li> the 8 128-bit SSE registers: &lsquo;<samp>%xmm8</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%xmm15</samp>&rsquo;.
</li></ul>

<p>With the AVX extensions more registers were made available:
</p>
<ul>
<li> the 16 256-bit SSE &lsquo;<samp>%ymm0</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%ymm15</samp>&rsquo; (only the first 8
available in 32-bit mode).  The bottom 128 bits are overlaid with the
&lsquo;<samp>xmm0</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>xmm15</samp>&rsquo; registers.

</li></ul>

<p>The AVX2 extensions made in 64-bit mode more registers available:
</p>
<ul>
<li> the 16 128-bit registers &lsquo;<samp>%xmm16</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%xmm31</samp>&rsquo; and the 16 256-bit
registers &lsquo;<samp>%ymm16</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%ymm31</samp>&rsquo;.

</li></ul>

<p>The AVX512 extensions added the following registers:
</p>
<ul>
<li> the 32 512-bit registers &lsquo;<samp>%zmm0</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%zmm31</samp>&rsquo; (only the first 8
available in 32-bit mode).  The bottom 128 bits are overlaid with the
&lsquo;<samp>%xmm0</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%xmm31</samp>&rsquo; registers and the first 256 bits are
overlaid with the &lsquo;<samp>%ymm0</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%ymm31</samp>&rsquo; registers.

</li><li> the 8 mask registers &lsquo;<samp>%k0</samp>&rsquo;&ndash;&lsquo;<samp>%k7</samp>&rsquo;.

</li></ul>

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